Re: OT: Flamebait: Text vs HTML email
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 17:36, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Michael D. Schleif wrote:
>
> > I'm always puzzled by these rants and queries. Amazing to me, books,
> > those antiquated hardcopy reserves of printed ascii,
>
> Books are just printed ASCII? Books don't use multiple fonts, not even
> different sizes of the same font, or italics? Books have no graphical
> elements? Are you sure about this?
Look at a few more books.
"Essential System Administration, 2nd ed" (the armadillo book
has 6 font weights: "variable width", "variable width bold",
"variable width italic", "constant width", "constant bold",
"constant italic", at least 5 point sizes, and lots of graphics.
I'm sure that every other O'Reilly book has the exact same
layout.
In fact, the only documentation that I know of that is
pure ASCII are README files. That's why roff was put into
Unix 25 years ago: because bold, underlines, italics, and
different point sizes *do* impart information that pure
ASCII can not.
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